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Id say you won't beat the simplicity of ring feeders,
I keep the feeders in more or less the same dry place every year and level off with box and roll in some grass seed feck ruining a whole field, it's great to have so many sheep out some change from last yearFeed the sheep here once every 3 days from ring feeders. 1 per 50-60 ewes. I keep moving the feeder a few feet every time. Downside is it leaves a permanent circle of no growth outside where the feeder was for a few years after.have loads of little circles around the field. Must go over it with a land leveller and some grass seed on it this year.
I keep the feeders in more or less the same dry place every year and level off with box and roll in some grass seed feck ruining a whole field, it's great to have so many sheep out some change from last year
How long have you been feeding?Im going to run out of silage mid February, so nearly afraid to hope for an early spring. But every day that stays mild and dry hopefully brings it nearer.
The pirtequip one don’t hold enough feed for big batchesThere’s 2 cracking portequip 20ft bale feeding trailers on eBay, around £1300/piece I think?
What about 3-4 round feeders? I find outside on roots that 1 per 120 is ok, on short grass or inside better 1 round feeder per 60 works best.
I’ve seen recently people with straw choppers blowing silage over fence lines in 200metre long runs and the sheep eating it like that? Sheep trampling it in is the biggest problem with mobs though which is where feeding trailers come handy.
How long have you been feeding?
2 of them would? 3 bales on the bottom and 2 ontop of them so 5 bales, 2 feeders so 120 feeding spaces with 10 bales would last a fair while regardless of mob size?The pirtequip one don’t hold enough feed for big batches